Book description
Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them.
Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This book:
- Provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design
- Paints a broad picture of web navigation and basic human information behavior
- Demonstrates how navigation reflects brand and affects site credibility
- Helps you understand the problem you're trying to solve before you set out to design
- Thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and different types of navigation
- Explores "information scent" and "information shape"
- Explains "persuasive" architecture and other design concepts
- Covers special contexts, such as navigation design for web applications
- Includes an entire chapter on tagging
Publisher resources
Table of contents
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Designing Web Navigation
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- Preface
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I. Foundations of Web Navigation
- 1. Introducing Web Navigation
- 2. Understanding Navigation
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3. Mechanisms of Navigation
- 3.1. STEP NAVIGATION
- 3.2. PAGING NAVIGATION
- 3.3. BREADCRUMB TRAIL
- 3.4. TREE NAVIGATION
- 3.5. SITE MAPS
- 3.6. DIRECTORIES
- 3.7. TAG CLOUDS
- 3.8. A–Z INDEXES
- 3.9. NAVIGATION BARS AND TABS
- 3.10. VERTICAL MENU
- 3.11. DYNAMIC MENUS
- 3.12. DROP-DOWN MENUS
- 3.13. VISUALIZING NAVIGATION
- 3.14. BROWSER MECHANISMS
- 3.15. SUMMARY
- 3.16. QUESTIONS
- 3.17. FURTHER READING
- 4. Types of Navigation
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5. Labeling Navigation
- 5.1. THE VOCABULARY PROBLEM
- 5.2. ASPECTS OF GOOD LABELS
- 5.3. LABELING SYSTEMS
- 5.4. PERSUASIVE LABELS
- 5.5. TRANSLATING LABELS
- 5.6. SOURCES OF LABELS
- 5.7. SUMMARY
- 5.8. QUESTIONS
- 5.9. FURTHER READING
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II. A Framework for Navigation Design
- 6. Evaluation
- 7. Analysis
- 8. Architecture
- 9. Layout
- 10. Presentation
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III. Navigation in Special Contexts
- 11. Navigation and Search
- 12. Navigation and Social Tagging Systems
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13. Navigation and Rich Web Applicatios
- 13.1. RICH WEB APPLICATIONS
- 13.2. NAVIGATING RICH WEB APPLICATIONS
- 13.3. DESIGNING RICH WEB APPLICATIONS
- 13.4. SUMMARY
- 13.5. QUESTIONS
- 13.6. FURTHER READING
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I. References
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
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Product information
- Title: Designing Web Navigation
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2007
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596553784
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